Following a cardiac arrest Carol Brothers’s family were told it would be best to allow her die in peace, but then she woke up

Carol Brothers is living proof that doctors do not always get it right. Three days after medical support was withdrawn and she was left to die “in peace”, she opened her eyes and told her family: “I’m coming home.”

Mrs Brothers, a 63-year-old grandmother of eight, from Easterton, Wiltshire, was expected to die after a cardiac arrest stopped her heart beating for 45 minutes. She was rushed to hospital in an air ambulance, but family members gathered at her bedside in intensive care were told there was no chance of a recovery. Sadly they agreed that medical support could be